With barely three weeks left to go for the on-line voting for the 2018 Asian Golf Awards, all indications point to this year’s polls establishing an all-time record for the number of valid votes cast.

Last week, the vote count stood at 153,762. For a sense of how the votes cast compare with last year, the total number was 104,000 last year which was a record in itself! The new record stands at 164,633 votes as of 12 noon on June 12.

“Watching the daily voting trend, we are quite confident that we will be witnessing new weekly records being established,” said Alice Ho, coordinator for the on-line polls.

“For those clubs that have not cast votes as yet, there is still time to vote – the deadline for voting is June 30 and the polls will officially shut down at midnight,” Ho said.

The latest trend indicator shows China leading in the total vote count with Thailand a very close second. Vietnam and Malaysia are involved in a tussle for third spot.

The 2018 polls is the 19th edition in the series. “The final outcome of the Asian Golf Awards poll is determined by the number of valid votes cast during the polling period which ends on June 30,” Ho pointed out.

Success in the polls is based on the popular vote count with the most number of votes received in a given category securing the top award.” It is important to understand that this is a popular vote process and to do well, clubs need to organise themselves to try and obtain as many votes as they possibly can from their members, guests and golfers in general,” Ho added.

The Asian Golf Awards is the only pan-Asia Pacific Award programme of its kind for the golf industry and it has established itself as both the “Oscars” for the industry and a very distinguished measure of excellence by which the industry measures its very best.